Thanks Ian. I'm familiar with gpg and have used it before to digitally sign
e-mails. I just didn't understand the concept of having others "sign" your
key, and had not heard of key signing sessions before. Thank you for the
explanation, and I'm sorry if my original question, and subsequent reply,
came off as rude. I didn't mean to offend.
-Brian
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Ian L. Target <ian69 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Brian McKinney wrote:
> > someone explain a "key signing session" to me please? :)
> > -Brian
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Don Wright <satlug at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> I'll answer your question - even after you top-posted. ;)
>> There is a good chance that you have not met most of the people on this
> list. Even if you attend the monthly meetings, you may know only a hand
> full of the people on this list. There is nothing to stop someone from
> getting on Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Excite, Lycos, etc., etc., and getting
> a free email address and associating that email address with any only
> ficticious name. So having a encryption key really doesn't amount to a
> whole lot unless you have actually met the person. Since you may
> encounter a public key from someone half way around the world, meeting
> them in person is highly unlikely. So, roughly (very roughly) in a "six
> degrees of separation" kind of way, depending on how many people have
> signed your key, depends on how "good" the key is. I am floundering . .
> . someone else take it from here.
>> Ian
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